UNITED STATES v. N.A.A.C.P.

No. 85-6212.

779 F.2d 881 (1985)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE, INC., Elijah Feaster, Maria Fuller, Beverly Johnson, Darwin Jones, Doris Lewis, David Malone, Robert Middlebrooks, Harrison Mullen, William Stenson, William Westbrook and Nathaniel Wright, Sherman Abdallah, Richard Cruz, Marilyn Mack, Joanne Rizzo, Christine Salamone, Deidre Wallace and Gwendolyn Williams, William Blake, Joseph Coniglio, Cindy Diem, Charles Flynn, James Howe, Don Just, James P. Kennedy, Michael J. Krzeminski, Timothy McDonald, Maureen Oakley, Patrick S. O'Mara, Paul Skinner, Kevin Veith, Thomas Vivian, Ronald Zaprzal and Taras Znaczko, Afro-American Police Association, Inc., Danny Williams, John Dublin, John Clarence Eberhart, Timothy Irving Baldon, Mark Anthony Rice and Vernon Keith Beaty, Plaintiffs-Intervenors-Appellees, v. CITY OF BUFFALO, a Municipal Corporation, and County of Erie, Defendants-Appellees. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF BUFFALO, A Municipal Corporation, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided December 19, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dennis J. Dimsey, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C. (Wm. Bradford Reynolds, Asst. Atty. Gen., Charles J. Cooper, Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., Walter W. Barnett, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., Salvatore R. Martoche, U.S. Atty. for the Western Dist. of N.Y., Buffalo, N.Y., of counsel), for plaintiff-appellant.

Michael B. Risman, Asst. Corp. Counsel, City of Buffalo (Sara O. Naples, Corp. Counsel for the City of Buffalo, of counsel), for defendant-appellee City of Buffalo.

L.F. Walentynowicz, Buffalo, N.Y., for plaintiffs-intervenors William Blake, et al.

Paul C. Saunders, New York City (Douglas R. Cox, Betsy A. Breese, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York City, William L. Robinson, Richard T. Seymour, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, D.C., of counsel), for plaintiff-intervenors Afro-American Police Assn., Inc., et al.

Before FEINBERG, Chief Judge, and MANSFIELD and OAKES, Circuit Judges.


MANSFIELD, Circuit Judge:

The United States Government appeals from an order of the Western District of New York entered by Chief Judge John T. Curtin, 609 F.Supp. 1252 (1985), denying its motion to modify the court's November 23, 1979, decree establishing interim goals for the hiring of minority and female policemen and firemen by the City of Buffalo. The decree was entered after a trial in which the court found that the City...

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